{"id":613,"date":"2007-03-14T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2017-06-06T04:05:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T10:05:01","slug":"impeachment-winning-by-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/impeachment-winning-by-losing\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment: Winning by Losing"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>by Ernest Partridge, opednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Why not impeach Bush and Cheney and remove them from office?<\/p>\n

Among those who devoutly wish that these two be separated from their offices, the most prominent reason for resisting impeachment is that even if a bill of impeachment were voted in the House of Representatives, conviction and removal from office by the Senate will almost certainly fail. So why begin an endeavor that is doomed at the start?\u00c2\u00a0 So argue such worthy observers as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Randi Rhodes and John Dean.\u00c2\u00a0 Until recently, I concurred with this opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These skeptics would have a point if Senate conviction and removal from office were the sole objective and consequence of impeachment, as the Republican regulars and their compliant enablers in the mainstream media would have us believe. Once again, by assuming that removal from office is the be-all and end-all of impeachment, the Democrats and many of their progressive supporters and commentators have carelessly consented to play the GOP game by the GOP rules. They have, as George Lakoff might put it, thoughtlessly adopted their opponents’ “framing”\u009d of the impeachment issue. They have, to put it bluntly, been suckered again, as they have all too many times in the past. When will they ever learn?<\/p>\n

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